Separating switch for high-voltage aerial conductors



3,715,391 SEPARATING swncn pon HIGH VOLTAGE AERIAL cormucwon;

June 4, 1929. B l. sci-lLLER Filed June a, 1927 Patented is, it, (1929. I

UNITED STATES- VP'ATENTIOFFIVICE;

HEINRICH SCHGLLER, OF ESSEN, GERMANY.

snmna'rma swrron non HIGH-VOLTAGE AERIAL connut'rons.

Application filed June 8, 1927, Serial No 197,402, and in Germany June 19, 1926.!

My invention relates to improvements in separating switches for high voltage aerial conductors, and the ob ect of the improvements is to provide a switch which can be readily operated, even in cold weather. With this object in view my invention consists in carefully guiding the contact maklng members, the insulatlng rods carrying the said 1 contacts at their ends being capable of movement in different directions when operating the switch, so that the said contact making members are brought, by movement of the insulating rods in one direction, into posltion for separating the conductors. It For the purpose of explaining the invention an example embodying the same has been shown in the accompanying drawing 1n which Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the switch a and Fig. 2 is a diagrammaticalelevation showing the switch by full lines in its closed position and by dotted lines inits open position. v

In the example shown inthe drawing the conductors r are attached, by meansot rod insulators a and b to a relatively fixed supporting part such for example as a pole, the figure showing a part 8 of the said pole. To the outer ends of the said rod insulators clamping members t for attaching the conductors there- ;0 to, and members it are connected, the saidv members having links 0!, (Z jointed thereto at c. From a carrier bar g a pair of insulators e and f are suspended, to which contact making members o-and p are rigidly secured, and

I the carrier bar 9 is suspended by means of a pair of ropes 7c and g trained on rollers hand 71 mounted on the part 8, the said bar 9 being adapted to be moved upwardly and downwardly by means of the ropes 7c and q.

40 The contact making members 0 and p are secured to the insulators e, f at m, n. The

inks d, d are pivotally connected to the bottom ends of the insulators e, f.

In the position of the parts shown in the figure the separating switch is in the closing position. By releasing the ropes 7a and q the ar g is brought into the position shown in.v

dotted lines, the top ends of the insulators e, 7 moving downwardly in vertical direction, and the outer ends m and n thereof moving so through an arc thecenter of which is at 0. Thus the contact making members 0 and p are brought into the circuit breaking position shown in the figure in dotted lines.

I claim: v

1. A separating switch for high voltage aerial conductors, comprising a supporting part, a pair of conductors attached thereto and insulated therefrom, contact making members connected respectively with said conductors, a carrier mounted on said supporting part and being movable in a vertical direction, insula tors pivotally suspended from said carrier and carrying said contact making members, links jointed to the bottom ends of said insulators and suspended at opposte sides of said supporting part, and means for moving said carrier in a vertical direction.

2. A separating switch for high voltage aerial conductors, comprising a supporting 7 part, a pair of rod insulators attached thereto, a pair of conductors attached to the free ends of said rod insulators, a carrier mounted on said supporting part and being movable in a vertical direction, insulators pivotally suspended from said carrier, contact making members secured to the bottom ends of. said insulators, links connecting the bottom ends of said insulators respectively with the outer ends of said rod insulators, and means for so moving said carrier in a vertical direction.

3. A supporting switch for conductors, comprising a supporting part, a pair of conductors attached thereto and insulated therefrom, a link pivotally connected to each conductor, the links bearing contacts to be brought into engagement and close the circuit between said conductors, a carrier, insulators connecting said carrier to the ends of the links adjacent said contacts, and means for raising and lowering said carrier and said insulators bodily to engage and disengage said contacts.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature.

HEINRICH SOHOLLER. 

